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He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.

He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Successful, Found, Wisest

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Determination, Moving, Past

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Joy, Cooking, Energy

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Love, Stranger, Feels

Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

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Fun, Selfish, Sacrifice
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.425, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spirit, Behinds, Stillness

He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Oneness, Knowing, World
Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1995). “The Bhagavad Gita: God talks with Arjuna : royal science of God realization”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub

Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Struggle, Self, People

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Thinking, Body

One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.

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Healing, Health, Trying

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Worry, Long

Love is the heartbeat of all life.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Healing, Heart, Love Is

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Lying, Lakes

One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Teacher, Goal, Different

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Real, Heart, Soul

You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Love, Giving, World

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Lessons, Near Death

The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Life, Needs, Purpose
Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.19, BookBaby

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, People, Religion
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Wall, Sea, Joy

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Time Management, Tomorrow, Moments

The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Grief, Men

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Thrones, Prince Of Peace, Sitting
"Self-realization".

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Peace, Peacefulness, Altars

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, Knowing, Soul

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